Word: genderism
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...student claimed that last spring’s change in the University’s policy for investigating accusations of sexual assault—requiring “sufficient independent corroboration”—violated Title IX laws against gender-based discrimination...
...good time for glad-handing and a last bit of publicity. But it was well into the following morning when the last paper ballots from every village and shire came in: the gutsy politician of the zealous right had routed Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan and smashed the gender barrier to become Britain's first female...
Harvard undergraduates diverge from the greater public in a number of important ways. Most obviously, they are far more opposed to the war than the public nationwide. Harvard undergrads were more pessimistic about the war earlier. And a gender gap—in which women tend to oppose the war more then men—was wider at Harvard than elsewhere...
...flying fighters, bombers, and attack helicopters. They seem to object to hand-to-hand combat. Personally, I've never met a woman who wanted to be in the infantry. But if they're big and strong and tall, and they want to do it, they'll end up there. Gender should not be a discriminator in combat roles...
...Gender in the military is not much of an issue while the bullets are flying, she said. "This whole issue is being argued by people not in the military, or if in the military, they have never worked with women. I have never pulled a guy out of a wrecked helicopter and had him say, 'Would you please not do this? I'm waiting for a male.'" When she was captured by the Iraqis, no one seemed to care that she was a woman...